{"id":15,"date":"2016-11-04T18:51:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T01:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gailcmurphy\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:15:47","slug":"cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gailcmurphy\/cv\/","title":{"rendered":"CV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gail C. Murphy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor, Computer Science, UBC
\nFormer, Vice President Research and Innovation, UBC
\nFormer, Co-Founder\/Director (former Chief Scientist), Tasktop Technologies<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n

My research interests are in improving the productivity of software developers and knowledge workers by giving them tools to identify, manage and coordinate the information that really matters for their work.<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ph.D. (1996), Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington<\/a>
\nM.S. (1994), Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington<\/a>
\nB.Sc. Honours (1987), Computing Science, University of Alberta<\/a><\/p>\n

Professional Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n

2017 (Aug)-2026 (May), Vice-President Research & Innovation, UBC
\n2007-2017, Co-Founder and Director (formerly Chief Scientist), Tasktop Technologies<\/a>
\n2006-present, Professor, Computer Science, UBC
\n2016-2017, Associate Vice President Research pro tem<\/em>, UBC
\n2013-2016, Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies), Faculty of Science, UBC
\n2001-2006, Associate Professor, Computer Science, UBC
\n1996-2001, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UBC
\n1987-1992, Software Designer, MPR Teltech, Vancouver BC<\/p>\n

Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

2023, ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
\n2022, ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award for FSE 1995 paper with Mik Kersten
\n2021, Innovations in Software Engineering Test of Time Paper award (10 years after publication) (co-authored with K.Somasundaram)
\n2020, CASCON Most Influential Paper (10 years after publication) (co-authored with Petcharat Viriyakattiyaporn)
\n2019, ICSE New and Emerging Results, Best Paper
\n2018, ACM Fellow
\n2018, IEEE Computer Society Harlan J. Mills Award
\n2017, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, International Conference on Program Comprehension (co-authored with Daniel Almeida, Greg Wilson and Mike Hoye)
\n2016, ICSE Most Influential Paper (10 years after publication) (co-authored with John Anvik and Lyndon Hiew)
\n2015, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
\n2015, Runner-up Most Influential Paper (10 years after publication) (co-authored with Reid Holmes)
\n2015, Modularity Most Influential Paper (10 years after publication) (co-authored with Mik Kersten)
\n2014, Third Prize, Blue Sky Track Visions Paper at FSE 2014 (co-authored with Marc Palyart, Emerson Murphy-Hill and Xavier Blanc)
\n2014, University of Washington CS&E Alumni Achievement Award
\n2013, ICSE Most Influential Paper (10 years after publication) (co-authored with Davor Cubranic)
\n2011, ACM SIGSOFT Retrospective Impact Paper Award
\n2010, ACM Distinguished Scientist
\n2010, ACM Distinguished Paper Award @ ICSE (paper co-authored with Thomas Fritz, Jingwen Ou and Emerson Murphy-Hill)
\n2008, UW Engineering Diamond Award (Early Career)
\n2006, NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship
\n2006, CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award
\n2006, ACM Distinguished Paper Award @ ICSE (paper co-authored with John Anvik and Lyndon Hiew)
\n2005, AITO Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize
\n2005, UBC Killam Research Fellowship
\n2005, ACM Distinguished Paper Award @ ICSE (paper co-authored with Reid Holmes)
\n2004, Distinguished Teaching Award, Dept. of Computer Science, UBC
\n2003, Peter Wall Early Career Scholar (Associate Professor Cohort)
\n2003, Incredible Instructor Award (for CPSC 507), Dept. of Computer Science, UBC
\n2003-2005, Eclipse Innovation Award, IBM
\n1999, 2001, Incredible Instructor Award (for CPSC 410), Dept. of Computer Science, UBC
\n1999-2000: IBM University Partnership Program – Faculty Development Award<\/p>\n

SelectedCurrent and Recent Professional Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n

2023, Program Committee Member, Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2023<\/a>
\n2022, Program Committee Member, New Ideas and Emerging results, ICSE 2022<\/a>
\n2021, Co-Chair, New Ideas and Emerging Results Co-Chair, ICSE 2021<\/a>
\n2020, Program Board Member and Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair, ICSE 2020<\/a>
\n2019, Program Committee Member, New and Emerging Results and Doctoral Symp, ICSE 2019<\/a>
\n2019, Program Committee Member for Technical Papers, MSR 2019<\/a>
\n2018, Program Committee Member, Onward 2018<\/a>
\n2017, General Chair, SPLASH<\/a>
\n2017, Program Committee Member, Technical Research Papers, ICSE 2017<\/a>
\n2017, Program Committee Member, Technical Briefings, ICSE 2017<\/a>
\n2017, Program Committee Member, Industry Paper Track, ICPC<\/a>
\n2017, Program Committee Member, Programming Experience Workshop, PX\/17<\/a>
\n2016, Co-Program Chair, APSEC 2016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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